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Students read a poem about air to answer retrieval and inferential questions. SJ-2-2-1999. Text provided.

Students predict the outcome of 100 coin tosses, then carry out a test of their prediction, recording their results.

Students explain who is most likely to win a game based on spinners, and how the game could be made fair.

Students interpret a back stem-and-leaf graph to answer questions about a measurement investigation.

Students consider three different sampling methods for a survey and decide if each is a fair sample, explaining their answer.

Students use rounding to estimate totals then discuss this as a method of estimation.

Students use a flowchart to find solutions and generate rules from them.

Students answer two questions about exercise times for an incrementing fitness programme. They identify an expression relating time exercised to the number of weeks on the programme, and explain why this pattern couldn't continue indefinitely.

In this practical task, students collect data on the number of people in cars passing the school. They then record this, in a table and use the information to make a prediction.

Students estimate and explain how they estimated their answer for two number problems: one involving multiplication; and the other division.

Students show how they would carry out estimation of multiplication tasks.

Students answer questions involving finding fractions in story problems about marbles and write their answer in its simplest form.

Students enlarge a shape made of cubes and explore the relationship between the scale factor and volume.

In this practical task students design a net for a lidded cardboard cube to hold a tennis ball. They then cut out and construct the cube.

In this practical task students design a net for a lidded cardboard box to hold 3 "chocolate bars" represented by hundreds blocks. They then cut out and construct the box.

Students identify towns and cities on a map using compass points.

Students need to interpret data about travel time to school and common after-school activities and identify which statement is true from a list of given statements.

Students are asked to study a bar graph of ways to travel to school and write down five things that are wrong with the way the graph is set up.

Task: identify two features that enable a sea lion to live in water. Assessment focus: adaptations.

Students write arguments for and against school rules.

Task: multiple choice questions and interpreting a diagram. Assessment focus: phases of the moon.

Students select the answer for two subtraction problems, select which one they thought was easier, and explain their reasons for this.

Students read a recount about New Zealanders travelling in Africa, then answer retrieval and inference questions. The text is provided.

Task: Describe which cyclist uses more energy and why. Assessment focus: forces created by air resistance.

Students construct three different sized parachutes from plastic bags. They then carry out a fair test to see which sized parachute is the most effective. Students answer questions about fair tests, collect and record their results, and make a conclusion.